Utopia - Thomas More - Bøger - - 9798680146224 - 29. september 2020
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Thomas More
Utopia

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Book Excerpt: ...g More's lifetime. Its first publication in this country was in the English translation, made in Edward's VI.'s reign (1551) by Ralph Robinson. It was translated with more literary skill by Gilbert Burnet, in 1684, soon after he had conducted the defence of his friend Lord William Russell, attended his execution, vindicated his memory, and been spitefully deprived by James II. of his lectureship at St. Clement's. Burnet was drawn to the translation of "Utopia" by the same sense of unreason in high places that caused More to write the book. Burnet's is the translation given in this volume. The name of the book has given an adjective to our language--we call an impracticable scheme Utopian. Yet, under the veil of a playful fiction, the talk is intensely earnest, and abounds in practical suggestion. It is the work of a scholarly and witty Englishman, who attacks in his own way the chief political and social evils of his time. Beginning with fact, More tells how he was sent into Flanders with Cuthbert Tuns...

Medie Bøger     Paperback Bog   (Bog med blødt omslag og limet ryg)
Udgivet 29. september 2020
ISBN13 9798680146224
Antal sider 92
Mål 152 × 229 × 5 mm   ·   136 g
Sprog Engelsk  

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